AREA AND POPULATION
425
miles long, and 180 miles across at the broadest part ; coast line 8,000 miles. New Zealand is about 1,200 miles east of Australia. Area, excluding islands annexed in 1901, 103,581 square miles. North Island, 44,130 square miles, South Island 58.120, Stewart Island 662 square miles. Acreage 66,292,232 acres, exclusive of the Cook and other islands (179,200 acres), and up to March, 1920, 31,442,819 acres had been alienated, including lands reserved and set apart by the State for special purposes (13,591,041 acres). Estimated population, June 30, 1920, 1,178,722, exclusive of Maoris, 49,776 in 1916, and Cook Islanders, 12,797 in 1916. Census population, exclusive of aborigines : —
laaa
Females
Total
Increase per cent, per annum
1881
269,606 220,328
189,981
8-1
1886
312,221
266,261
57 S.
3 6
1891
332,877
293,781
626.658
1-7
1896
371,415
331,945
703,360
2 3
1901
405,992
366.:
719
19
1906
471,008
417,570
888,578
2 8
1911
531,910
476,558
1,008,468
27
1916
551,775
547,674
1,099,449
1-8
Area and population of each provincial district at the Census of October 15, 1916:—
Population at the Census
Population ••esti- mated
Provincial District
.Square If ilea
of October 15,
1916
Males
Females
Totals
Jan. 1, 1920
Auckland ....
■SJM
LStfcM
153,468
908,766
333,424
Taranaki ....
3,732
n,m
27,150
5 ■.,'.' 2".
>.c."i
Hawke's Bay.
4.241
27,194
27,073
54,267
«4M
Wellington
10,807
119,572
112.542
232,1141
MMtt
Marlborough .
4.2-r
8,508
8,102
16,608
16,970
Nelson . . . .
10.8T5
22,415
mjm
43,251
MJM
Westlsnd .
7,414
15,502
14,801
Canterbury ....
13,858
88,065
93,784
181.869
191,2*2
Otago:—
Otapo Portion
13,957
63,546
67,972
131,518
mjm
Southland Portion
11,355
30,296
2V.S33
59,629
Total .
551,775
547,674
1,099,449
1,164,405
1 Tiiis figure includes military and internment camps.
Population of the North Island, 1916, 651,072 ; South Island (including Stewart Island and Chatham Islands), 448,337. Total population, 1916, 1,162,293, including 49,776 Maoris (25,933 males, 23,843 females), and 12,797 residents of Cook and other Pacific Islands annexed in 1901. Popu- lation in 1920 (exclnding Maoris): North Island, 691,933 ; South Island (including Stewart and Chatham Islands), 472,472; total, 1,164,405.
In 1916, 506,988 lived in the rural districts ; 592,461 in boroughs.
The estimated populations of the chief cities and towns of New Zealand on January 1, 1920, were as follows: — Metropolitan areas : Auckland, 144,646 ; Wellington, 100,898 ; Christchurch, 101,747 ; Dunedin. 72,048 Suburban areas : Gisborne, 14,366 ; Napier, 16,383 ; New Plymouth, 11,051 ;
